We left on Friday night. We had to leave after school and decided to take a bus because it was going to be heaps cheaper than taking a cab (180 THB each instead of 1000-1500 THB.) The bus took 4 hours to get to the ferry terminal, followed by a 30min. ferry ride, and a 5min. taxi ride (when I say taxi I mean truck bed with benches.) After all that we arrived at 9:45pm, exhausted, ready for a Singha and bed.
Saturday morning was overcast but it didn't end up raining during the day (there was a 60% chance of thunderstorms.) We had a big "American Breakfast" (included in the cost of the room) and then laid in deck chairs for the rest of the morning. The sun was never really out all morning but I still got burnt. Go figure. In the afternoon, the sun burned away all the clouds and became really hot. We wandered around our resort, found the pool, the other beach, and a giant Buddha. For dinner, we cleaned ourselves up and walked down the beach to one of the beach BBQ restaurants. You choose your meal (from Tuna to T-bones, baked potatoes and corn, or mussels and crabs), the cook cooks the meal, while you lounge on the beach in Thai beds. Once night fell at this particular place, there was a really cool fire show. All this for the less than thirty Canadian dollars! We ended the night with rotis cooked on the beach, by a vendor, on the walk home.
This morning, we rose to beautiful sunshine. After another great "American Breakfast", and another swim in the ocean, we cleaned ourselves up and got ready to leave. W
e took the resort's ferry back to the main land and started walking to the bus depot, dreading another 4 hours in a bus. On the way there a man on a motorcycle stopped and asked us "Taxi?" We asked how much, to which he replied "1200 Baht!" We said "No thanks!" and kept walking to the bus depot. He caught back up with us and asked "1000 baht?" and after a little deliberation we said yes. Now, immediately after getting in the cab I became leary that this was a con - the driver switched on the meter, which began rising quite rapidly. The 1000 baht mark came and went on the meter as the driver sped along the highway at speeds reaching 155km/h. (My heart was in my throat a couple times, as the driver swerved in and out of traffic, lauched us over bridges, all without the protection of seat belts as very few cabs have seat belts in the back seat.) Regardless, we made it to our door in 2 hours on the dot, for the low price of 1000 baht. Jess and I paid the driver and laughed all the way up to our apartment. Ko Samet really is close when you find a cab driver like that!Looking forward to the next trip out of the city. It's true, Thailand - Bangkok specifically - becomes a lot more bearable when you know you can get out of the city easily.
I added some more pics from the trip to my Flickr site. Go check them out!
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